Re: mass hysteria sweeping our culture --> This has been going on for at least the past 20 years... every pet peeve has become a cause of some kind --> every nitwit (e.g. Al Gore) pretends to be an expert.
So, here are a few facts in a nutshell
1. Cancer --> CO2s... carbon monoxide --> expelled from cars, trucks, buses, cigarettes. The freaks couldn't take away your transportation so they went after the smokers. Mass hysteria painted the smokers as the most vile people on the planet. When, in fact, their second hand smoke does nothing physically to you... except it stinks!!!
2. Women's health -- breast cancer, mental illness --> although the connection to abortion has been known since Roe vs Wade and most definitely since 1986... we have to endure these women's marches for a self-inflicted wound.
3. AIDS --> another self-inflicted illness
Would all the shrinks start shrinking these raging freaks!!!!
I lived with a pipe smoker for 12 years and in that time I had pneumonia, severe bronchitis at least twice a year, asthma..which landed me in the hospital when I was 5 months pregnant at age 25...the asthma attack lasted for 3 months...lost 15 lbs during that ordeal. I was sick with one lung problem or another for the duration of the time I lived with him. I finally divorced the guy and now live in a smoke free environment....I no longer have asthma...no signs of pneumonia or bronchitis. My lung health has improved immensely. This is not a scientific analysis...just my own experience. Living with a smoker=sick...living with a non-smoker=improved health.